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Name
John Spicer
Given names
John
Surname
Spicer
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History 1759
 

Note: British Museum opens.
History 1760
 

Note: George II dies, his grandson crowned George III.<br />French surrender Montreal to the British.<br />Wedgwood opens pottery works.
History 1763
 

Note: Treaty of Paris ends the Seven Years' War. France cedes Canada and the Mississippi Valley to Britain.
History 1764
 

Note: Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny.
History 1769
 

Note: Arkwright invents a spinning machine.
History 1771
 

Note: Arkwright's first spinning mill.
History 1773
 

Note: Boston Tea Party.
History 1775
 

Note: American Revolution begins.<br />Watt's first efficient steam engine.
History 1776
 

Note: American colonies declare their independence.
History 1779
 

Note: First steam powered mills. Crompton invents spinning mule.
History 1781
 

Note: Cornwallis surrenders to Washington at Yorktown, Va.
History 1783
 

Note: Peace treaty signed in Paris between Great Britain and the United States.
History 1785
 

Note: Cartwright builds power loom.
History 1786
 

Note: Coal gas first used for lighting.
History 1789
 

Note: Bastille falls, French Revolution begins.
History 1793
 

Note: Louis XVI executed in France. England and France at war.
History 1798
 

Note: Battle of the Nile.
Birth of a son
#1
before 18 August 1799
 Pluckley, Kent, England

son - James Spicer
History 1799
 

Note: Napoleon named First Consul of France.
Baptism of a son 18 August 1799
 Pluckley, Kent, England

son - James Spicer
History 1801
 

Note: Union of Great Britain and Ireland.
History 1804
 

Note: Napoleon declared Emperor.
History 1805
 

Note: Battle of Trafalgar.
History 1809
 

Note: Napoleon captures Vienna.
History 1811
 

Note: Prince of Wales named Regent to act for George III, now insane.<br />Luddite riots in the North and the Midlands. Laborers attack factories and break up the machines which they fear will replace them.
History 1812
 

Note: Napoleon invades Russia.<br />War of 1812 between England and the United States.
History 1814
 

Note: Treaty of Ghent ends Anglo-U.S. War.<br />England and allies invade France.<br />Napoleon exiled to Elba.
History 1815
 

Note: Napoleon escapes Elba, begins the Hundred Days.<br />Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon exiled to St. Helena in the South Atlantic.<br />Corn Laws passed.
History 1819
 

Note: Peterloo Massacre of Corn Law protestors.
History 1820
 

Note: George IV succeeds George III on his death
History 1821
 

Note: Napoleon dies.
Marriage of a sonJames Spicer - View family
16 November 1822
 Little Chart, Kent, England

son - James Spicer
daughter-in-law - Alice Luckhurst
History 1829
 

Note: Peel establishes the Metropolitan Police.
History 1830
 

Note: George IV dies, his brother William IV succeeds.<br />Manchester - Liverpool Railway (first in England).
History 1832
 

Note: First Reform Bill: adds 10 pound/year householders to the voting rolls and reapportions Parliamentary representation much more fairly, doing away with most rotten and pocket boroughs. Adds 217,000 voters to an electorate of 435,000.
History 1833
 

Note: Slavery abolished throughout the British Empire.<br />Factory Act.
History 1834
 

Note: New Poor Law.<br />Houses of Parliament burn down.
History 1837
 

Note: William IV dies, succeeded by his niece, Victoria.
History 1838
 

Note: Regular Atlantic steamship service begins.
History 1839
 

Note: Anti-Corn-Law League founded.
History 1840
 

Note: Queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert, who becomes Prince Consort.<br />Penny post started.<br />S.F.B. Morse invents the telegraph.<br />Grammar Schools Act.
History 1842
 

Note: Chartist Riots.<br />Copyright Act.<br />Potato Failure in Europe, starvation in Ireland. Corn Laws (which had kept up the price of grain) repealed.
History 1849
 

Note: Gold discovered in California and Australia.
History 1850
 

Note: Telegraph cable laid under English Channel.
History 1851
 

Note: Great Exhibition (Crystal Palace).
History 1853
 

Note: Crimean War.
History 1855
 

Note: Livingston discovers Victoria Falls.
History 1857
 

Note: The Mutiny (India).
History 1858
 

Note: First Atlantic cable laid.
History 1861
 

Note: Albert dies, Victoria retires into mourning.<br />American Civil War.
History 1862
 

Note: Bismarck becomes Prussian premier.
History 1864
 

Note: Geneva Convention establishes Red Cross.
History 1867
 

Note: Telegraph cable laid under the Atlantic.<br />Second Reform Bill: enfranchises many workingmen, adds 938,000 to an electorate of 1,057,000 in England and Wales. (Disraeli's legislation)
History 1869
 

Note: Suez Canal opened.
History 1869
 

Note: Union Pacific Railway completed in U.S.
History 1870
 

Note: Forster's Elementary Education Act establishes School Boards.<br />Franco-Prussian War.
History 1871
 

Note: Trade unions legalised.<br />Newcastle engineers strike for a nine-hour day.<br />Germany unified.
History 1876
 

Note: Victoria named Empress of India.<br />Edison invents the phonograph.<br />Compulsory school attendance in Great Britain.
History 1877
 

Note: Transvaal annexed.
DeathYes
 

Family with Mary … - View family
himself
John Spicer

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wife
Mary …

Death Yes  

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Marriage: Yes
#1 son
James Spicer

Birth before 18 August 1799  Pluckley, Kent, England

Death between July 1886 and September 1886 (Age 86) Age: 89  West Ashford R D, Kent, England

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